There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
KURT VONNEGUTHello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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